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Examining #ethical issues facing students & clinicians. We are editorially independent; posts do not necessarily reflect AMA views/policies. RTs ≠ endorsements.
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Joined March 2010
The October 2025 Issue of the #AMAJournalofEthics – Diagnostic Research – is live! This theme issue considers a range of neglected diagnostic research ethics questions and investigates ethics questions about UDN policies, practices, and public support:
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What exactly is a medical mystery? Any one condition of illness could be diagnosed, misdiagnosed, a missed diagnosis, undiagnosed, or perhaps something else. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)...
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Dr James Tabery joins #EthicsTalk Talk to discuss how US health research has shifted from social and environmental factors to genetics over the course of the mid-to-late 20th century: https://t.co/HTCmjtMln4
#genetics #diagnosis
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This response, by Joseph Dov Bruch, PhD, Sneha Kannan, MD, MS and Zirui Song, MD, PhD, to an article suggests that authors erred in committing the errors they critique: https://t.co/2lD129J7DU
#privateequity
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Finding an accurate diagnosis can be a long and complex process. David A Pearce, PhD and Elena-Alexandra Tatare discuss the history of this issue: https://t.co/0SBVdw8U2G
#diagnosis #patientcare
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Finding an accurate diagnosis can be a long and complex process.
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The UDN seeks to advance diagnostic science and to facilitate accurate diagnoses of individual patient-participants' “medical mysteries”. Read the full article by Meghan Halley, PhD, MPH and Holly Tabor, PhD: https://t.co/K4u6iUYWAc
#diagnosticscience
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Despite legislative attention from Congress in the 1980s diagnostic research into rare diseases is not lucrative enough to garner sufficient private funding. Read more in this article from Barbara K. Redman, PhD, MBE: https://t.co/OZ6ilVhxoc
#rarediseases #patientcare
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Despite legislative attention from Congress in the 1980s, diagnostic research into rare diseases is not lucrative enough to garner sufficient private funding.
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A national consortium of clinicians and researchers hope to accurately diagnose patients with rare diseases, write Gianna Gordon and Lisa Kearns, MS, MA: https://t.co/ECnMCE4Y1s
#clinicalresearch #rarediseases
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A national consortium of clinicians and researchers hope to accurately diagnose patients with rare diseases.
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Patients with undiagnosed conditions often experience frustration and lose trust in health care, argue Mylynda B. Massart, MD, PhD and Erika N. Dreikorn, PhD: https://t.co/h5Ol5r6tJb
#diagnosis #patientcare
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Patients with undiagnosed conditions often experience frustration and lose trust in health care.
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Patients whose conditions are undiagnosed face stress and limited, delayed access to interventions that address their specific needs, write April Hall, PhD, MS, CGC, Bryn D. Webb, MD, and M. Stephen Meyn, MD, PhD: https://t.co/wG78RfIpYx
#diagnosis #patientcare
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Patients whose conditions are undiagnosed face stress and limited, delayed access to interventions that address their specific needs.
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UDN research is complex and involves many variables and some patient-subjects think that having enrolled in a UDN protocol was not worthwhile, write Tom A. Doyle, PhD and Erin Conboy, MD: https://t.co/V7vXnDu8TN
#diagnosticresearch #patientcare #ethics
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UDN research is complex and involves many variables, and some patient-subjects think that having enrolled in a UDN protocol was not worthwhile.
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Many rare diseases only affect a handful of individuals, with most of those remaining undiagnosed—without a known cause or pathology, despite evaluation by clinicians. Read the full letter from the editor by Georgeann Booth and Peter Nelson, MD:
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Many rare diseases only affect a handful of individuals, with most of those remaining undiagnosed—without a known cause or pathology, despite evaluation by clinicians.
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How might health care think about the ethics of human extinction? Earn #CME and find out in this case commentary from @JournalofEthics. https://t.co/0mBelNca75
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This article addresses the potential for human extinction and how clinicians, as well as other health care professions and organizations, can orient themselves ethically towards managing the risk of...
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Explore the ethical reasons why physicians have obligations to help some patients confront their own deaths and human extinction in this article from @JournalofEthics. Earn #CME and learn more. https://t.co/xhYX7u4SB0
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This article argues for ethics that support human extinction prevention as a project of medicine. It draws a parallel between reasons people are beholden to future generations and why physicians are...
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What are some of the ethical considerations physicians face when it comes to patient nutrition, the #opioid epidemic, and improving patient care? Find out as experts share their experiences in this @JournalofEthics #EthicsTalk podcast #CME course. https://t.co/pw9eSzP38R
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Listen to a curated selection of Ethics Talk podcasts from the AMA Journal of Ethics®, covering a range of timely topics in health care, to help sharpen your ethical decision-making and earn CME...
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What is extinction medicine and why should it be a specialty? Find out in this case commentary from @JournalofEthics. https://t.co/PWtX0Q7rT9
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This commentary on a case builds upon recent literature on climate change, health, and human extinction to argue in favor of a new clinical specialty: extinction medicine, which could help reduce...
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Critical care represents over 13% of hospital admissions and often require immediate and intensive care. Earn #CME credit and discover how to best treat patients that require critical care with @SCCM, @StanfordCME, @JournalofEthics and others. https://t.co/d8fFwwcAzz
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Critical care medicine and the provision of care in intensive care units plays a large role in the medical system. Learn how to best address general and psychiatric critical care equitably.
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Earn #CME credit and explore the wide-reaching medical implications of the rapidly changing artificial and augmented intelligence technologies in health care with @JAMA_current, @JournalofEthics and more. https://t.co/0QWcpHKEmx
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Artificial and Augmented Intelligence are rapidly changing technologies with wide-reaching medical implications. Earn CME credits while learning at your own pace.
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What ethical duties do physicians have to strengthen global public health systems and research on pandemic risk factors? Find out while earning #CME credit with @JournalofEthics. https://t.co/EY1qsvshl2
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Pandemics could cause human depopulation. This article argues that clinicians have ethical duties to strengthen public health systems and research on pandemic risks, promote prevention strategies...
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Experts discuss what #physicians and other health care professionals should know about embodiment. 🎧 Listen now to learn more in this #EthicsTalk episode from @JournalofEthics. https://t.co/dMHmsryMhQ
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The featured guest for this episode is Christine Slobogin, PhD, an assistant professor of health humanities and bioethics with a joint appointment in art and art history at the University of Roches...
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